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All Other Topics and Sites => All Other Bird Cams and Information => Topic started by: Gene in NE on March 22, 2016, 09:49:33 PM
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When the 2016 Forum was started, the 2015 history of this topic was lost. Here is a good start on some reading material. http://www.nebraskatravels.com/sandhill-crane-migration.html (http://www.nebraskatravels.com/sandhill-crane-migration.html)
The migration (estimated at 500,000) started quite early this year. The best viewing times are sunrise and sunset. The cranes depart the Platte river in the morning and visit the local corn fields for feed. Then in the evening return to the Platte to spend the night.
There is a cam at one of the viewing sites at http://rowe.audubon.org/birds/crane-cam (http://rowe.audubon.org/birds/crane-cam).
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Volunteers needed for annual crane count
http://www.wiscnews.com/portagedailyregister/announcements/community/article_7ea9c94a-2ca4-5620-878c-196f18beb7bf.html
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"Cranes everywhere!"
http://www.audubonaction.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=67086.0&dlv_id=84337&pgwrap=n
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Volunteers needed for annual crane count
http://www.wiscnews.com/portagedailyregister/announcements/community/article_7ea9c94a-2ca4-5620-878c-196f18beb7bf.html
I was not aware that an actual count was taken. Wonder how they would conduct something like that when there are around 500,000 cranes that come through the area. The magnitude of the number has always fascinated me. We have seen them live and in person and they do cover the sky at times providing shade from the sun. It has always appeared they arrive and depart in droves with a constant change in numbers.
Has anyone on these forums ever participated in a count of this type??
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Nebraska and the Arctic - As the crane flies ...
http://arcticjournal.com/opinion/2267/crane-flies
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Study: little overlap between wind turbines and sandhill crane
http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/study-little-overlap-between-wind-turbines-and-sandhill-crane-310135a3-740d-2e74-e053-0100007fce12-376632901.html
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Study: little overlap between wind turbines and sandhill crane
http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/study-little-overlap-between-wind-turbines-and-sandhill-crane-310135a3-740d-2e74-e053-0100007fce12-376632901.html
Sadly, they did not include the middle of Nebraska where 100's of thousand's cross the Platte River twice a year. Can you imagine the slaughter that would happen if a wind farm was built in their wide pathway across the State???
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Crane Trust reflects on history, looks toward future and growth
http://www.theindependent.com/communities/woodriver/crane-trust-reflects-on-history-looks-toward-future-and-growth/article_4c762800-7710-11e6-a537-0fa2bbcbb830.html
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Woods and Water Notebook: Sandhill cranes
http://www.presspubs.com/white_bear/news/article_c9b6ffb0-7a94-11e6-bf29-9707a8f9c709.html
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Public asked to be on lookout as whooping cranes migrate through Nebraska
http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/public-asked-to-be-on-lookout-as-whooping-cranes-migrate/article_e29c3fc8-8f65-11e6-8434-2f9d44f90c98.html
Whooping Crane Sightings
http://www.sandhillsexpress.com/Home/SandillsExpressArticleContent/tabid/95/ArticleId/17643/Whooping-Crane-Sightings.aspx
Whooping crane migration soon to begin in Kansas
http://www.kansasagland.com/news/local_state_news/whooping-crane-migration-soon-to-begin-in-kansas/article_3e4a159e-5753-52aa-a8db-d41aae4b941b.html
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Nature up close: Sandhill Cranes
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nature-up-close-sandhill-cranes/
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Sandhill cranes heading south
http://www.eastidahonews.com/2016/10/schiess-sandhill-cranes-heading-south/
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Sandhill, Whooping Cranes Spotted Outside Chicago (2 very cool videos)
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/10/31/sandhill-whooping-cranes-spotted-outside-chicago
(http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/sites/default/files/styles/resp-slide/public/article/slideshow-img/Josh%20Feeney%206_0.jpg?itok=ezv--a8C)
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Raptor Resource Project FB Page
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Escale [Stopover]: https://nature365.tv/november-14-2016/
We had to share this lovely Nature 365 video from Jim Brandenberg. The first birds to appear are cedar waxwings. The second birds are sandhill cranes. While this video was shot in the northern United States, more than 80% of the world?s population of sandhill cranes converge on Nebraska's Platte River valley - a critical sliver of threatened habitat in North America's Central Flyway. Along with them come millions of migrating ducks and geese. For more information, follow this link: http://www.nebraskaflyway.com/the-spring-migration-of-the-?/
I love sandhill cranes in part because of their beauty, and in part because their vocalizations always evoke a more primitive, wilder world for me. According to Wikipedia, the oldest unequivocal sandhill crane fossil is 2.5 million years old, which puts it into the Pleistocene era. This is about 1.5 million years older than the first bald eagle fossil, which appeared roughly 1 million years ago. Sandhill cranes echo an era filled with wildlife unknown to us outside the fossil record: North American horses, glyptodons, mastodons, dire wolves, scimitar cats, and sabertooth salmon, just to name a few. So much has changed, but bald eagles and sandhill cranes are still with us.
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Nebraska Flyway - The Spring Migration of the Sandhill Cranes
http://www.nebraskaflyway.com/the-spring-migration-of-the-sandhill-cranes/
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Book Review - A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World
http://www.americanornithologypubs.org/doi/full/10.1650/CONDOR-16-159.1
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Study: little overlap between wind turbines and sandhill crane
http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/study-little-overlap-between-wind-turbines-and-sandhill-crane-310135a3-740d-2e74-e053-0100007fce12-376632901.html
Sadly, they did not include the middle of Nebraska where 100's of thousand's cross the Platte River twice a year. Can you imagine the slaughter that would happen if a wind farm was built in their wide pathway across the State???
What would really help, and I've said it many times, is if these wind farms would start using the newer type turbines that are supposed to be more efficient and have NO BLADES to kill migrating birds, bats, or any that are just in the area.
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Keep an eye on the sky ... for sandhill cranes
http://www.nptelegraph.com/lifestyle/local_column/keep-an-eye-on-the-sky-for-sandhill-cranes/article_363f7dcc-f0a8-11e6-8ff7-7b0149c9e10d.html
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Immersive Show CRANE: ON EARTH, IN SKY Headed to Nebraska; Preps for Tour, NYC Run
http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/Immersive-Show-CRANE-ON-EARTH-IN-SKY-Headed-to-Nebraska-Preps-for-Tour-NYC-Run-20170222#
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How birds popular in Palm Beach Gardens ended up on a Nebraska stamp
http://npbc.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2017/03/04/how-birds-popular-in-palm-beach-gardens-ended-up-on-a-nebraska-stamp/
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Expand your experience
http://unkantelope.com/wordpress_antelope/2017/03/07/expand-your-experience/
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We were fortunate enough to be able to take a couple days to see the SandHill Cranes this year. Got to the Alda exit off of Interstate 80 around 10:00 am. There is a wonderful Information Center on the South side of the interstate. They provide you with everything you would ever want to know about the Cranes. They have maps of the gravel roads near the exit. They can tell you the locations where sizable flocks have been seen. We drove that route and probably saw 3/4's of the 404,000 head that have been spotted. We spent the night in Kearney and some time at the Rowe Sanctuary. The structure at Rowe is built with straw bales coated with plaster. Makes it very efficient. The next day we watched the flocks going every direction on the compass. Nightfall near Rowe is quite a sight. They leave the fields where they spend all day eating the leftovers from the soybean and corn fields. They land in the Platte river and spend the night for safety reasons. The guests we met those 2 days were superb hosts and very neighborly.
They have a display showing the spread on a map where the Cranes travel North even up to Greenland and then for the winter they travel South to Southern Mexico. They all cross the Platte River in about a 15 mile stretch.
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State commission denies Crane Trust tax exemption request
http://www.kearneyhub.com/news/state/state-commission-denies-crane-trust-tax-exemption-request/article_8b7f0a2a-0f19-11e7-89f5-b7262b7ac9d0.html
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An astonishing night on the Platte.
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An astonishing night on the Platte.
Your photo must have been taken from the same bridge we were fortunate to be standing on. The sunset was on the West and the moon was rising on the East. All you could hear was the cranes overhead.
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Climate change would have icy impact on state's economy, speaker says
http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/climate-change-would-have-icy-impact-on-state-s-economy/article_f282a778-ae32-11e7-b08b-b3ce1aef9542.html
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Proposal would divert Platte River water to the Republican River
http://netnebraska.org/article/news/1099337/proposal-would-divert-platte-river-water-republican-river
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The cranes are calling in Central Nebraska
http://ourtribune.com/headlines/the-cranes-are-calling-in-central-nebraska-2.html
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Audubon's Nebraska Crane Festival celebrates arrival of crane migration
http://www.kearneyhub.com/news/entertainment/audubon-s-nebraska-crane-festival-celebrates-arrival-of-crane-migration/article_a6d29904-01e4-11e8-acc6-97ca194fd138.html
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Wyoming might send Pathfinder water to Nebraska to protect endangered species
https://www.rawlinstimes.com/news/wyoming-might-send-pathfinder-water-to-nebraska-to-protect-endangered/article_3da2de1c-0e14-11e8-93b4-772f9719edac.html
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County, Crane Trust to meet after court rules in favor of Crane Trust
http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/county-crane-trust-to-meet-after-court-rules-in-favor/article_549115fc-1072-11e8-8543-4f42c192663c.html
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Plan to experience this year's sandhill crane migration
http://www.yorknewstimes.com/sports/sports-briefs/article_2ae9301a-1dc7-11e8-be2b-6b6b59c8d474.html
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Conservation necessity for what little is left of Platte River Valley
http://www.kearneyhub.com/news/agriculture/conservation-necessity-for-what-little-is-left-of-platte-river/article_7c4154d0-2eb9-11e8-91ed-13be7d47ffa9.html
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This Is What One of the Last Great Migrations Looks Like
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/sandill-cranes-migration-nebraska-animals-spd/?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=inside_20180430&utm_campaign=Content&utm_rd=27536634995
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This posting is a little out of the topic, but what is true about the Eagles is also true for the Sandhill Cranes. Fortunately, I am not aware of any windfarm next to the Platte River. I'm afraid that someone will sneak in a windfarm. The taxpayers are offering a great pile of money to the power companies to build wind farms.
http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/new/us-windfarms-kill-10-20-times-more-than-previously-thought.html (http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/new/us-windfarms-kill-10-20-times-more-than-previously-thought.html)
Gene
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This posting is a little out of the topic, but what is true about the Eagles is also true for the Sandhill Cranes. Fortunately, I am not aware of any windfarm next to the Platte River. I'm afraid that someone will sneak in a windfarm. The taxpayers are offering a great pile of money to the power companies to build wind farms.
http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/new/us-windfarms-kill-10-20-times-more-than-previously-thought.html (http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/new/us-windfarms-kill-10-20-times-more-than-previously-thought.html)
Gene
Thanks for the info, Gene. There is a thread in the forum for info like this, "Off Topic" then "Wind Farms Versus Eagles."
https://www.raptorresource.org/forum/index.php?board=6.0
There was a proposal for a wind farm near the whooping cranes' area in Texas and the community wasn't happy. Don't know what happened with the proposal. The sandhill cranes are having a little more trouble in the Sandhills of western Nebraska, which you're probably aware of. And then there's the Keystone pipeline to deal with... Seems like it's always something! :-\
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Nebraska's sandhill crane migration gives new meaning to 'flyover country'
https://www.joplinglobe.com/news/lifestyles/nebraska-s-sandhill-crane-migration-gives-new-meaning-to-flyover/article_47f8b413-e8ed-554e-992f-136228f1e61e.html
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Lingering winter slows sandhill crane migration in Nebraska
https://www.heraldcourier.com/news/lingering-winter-slows-sandhill-crane-migration-in-nebraska/article_31a978ea-9fbd-58b6-89a1-a3e595e31379.html
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6 Exciting Birdwatching Webcams
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/6-exciting-birdwatching-webcams
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Look for sandhill cranes in Eastern Iowa
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports/outdoors/look-for-sandhill-cranes-in-eastern-iowa-20190330
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Sandhill cranes in flight over Cone Marsh in June. The main dike, accessed east off V Ave, can be a great trail to walk for a chance at a flyover. Walk east down a short, grassy access road and you are there. (Brando Caswell/correspondent)
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Potter: Waves of cranes settled in; we were in heaven
https://www.kearneyhub.com/opinions/otheropinions/potter-waves-of-cranes-settled-in-we-were-in-heaven/article_2e2ff000-57b0-11e9-b66d-1f3dadf77b92.html
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Let there be lights, to help migratory cranes avoid power lines (great idea!)
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/let-there-be-lights-to-help-migratory-cranes-avoid-power-lines/
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Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes stop along the Platte River in the midwestern U.S. to rest and refuel on their annual migrations. They often travel at night, so the ACAS system's aim is to help cranes and other birds see power lines and other human structures in the dark, enabling them to safely reach their destinations. Image courtesy of James F. Dwyer/EDM International, Inc.
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600,000 cranes descend upon rural Nebraska during the world's largest crane migration, and it's a spectacular sight
https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/nebraska-crane-migration/
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Platte River Recovery projected lauded and extended
https://gazette.com/premium/platte-river-recovery-projected-lauded-and-extended/article_007b17a0-388f-11ea-b45a-8bbdc7b2df52.html
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Why You Need To See Nebraska's Sandhill Crane Migration
https://www.travelawaits.com/2488463/sandhill-crane-migration-nebraska/?pv=related_list
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Water to be released from Lake Mac to benefit threatened, endangered species
https://www.nptelegraph.com/news/state/water-to-be-released-from-lake-mac-to-benefit-threatened/article_647c3a6a-4fa3-11ea-ac18-5b7f5b2c040a.html
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Platte River chokepoint to undergo flow study
https://www.nptelegraph.com/news/local_news/platte-river-chokepoint-to-undergo-flow-study/article_c2dfc922-c263-11ea-b94e-cbe1fc289fda.html
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Hi T40.
Thought I'd stop in and check this out.
Nice put together you have.
Most interesting.
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October 15, 2021
MANY many cranes etc etc etc on the Mississippi flyway cam
https://www.explore.org/livecams/birds/mississippi-river-flyway-cam
Sharing a beautiful Fall pic too
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Audubon's Rowe Sanctuary's Crane Camera
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Nov 28, 2022 6:34 AM
Camera Time: Nov 28, 2022 6:34 AM CST
Birchwoman
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Sandhill cranes on their way North / USA.
https://www.nature365.tv/
This video is a Jim Brandenburg Classic from the original series, broadcast between 2016 to 2020. It has been enhanced to higher resolution since, to be included in the new collection.
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I got to thinking and thought 'why not' post this snap here. Too.
Mississippi River Flyway Cam
May 21, 2024 10:36 AM
Camera Time: May 21, 2024 10:35 AM CDT
Birchwoman
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